Webcasters Will Have To Pay Up On Sunday
It’s a sad day for small Internet radio stations, to be followed by a painful Sunday. The US Court of Appeals denied an emergency stay of execution requested by Webcasters to postpone royalty payment hikes implemented by the Copyright Royalty Board. The reasoning sounds rather bureaucratic. The court said opponents of the CRB had "not [...]
Microsoft Won’t Blog Stupidly
David Weller, the Community Manager at Microsoft’s Game Technology Group, took issue with a post penned by Penny Arcade that derided Microsoft’s blogging practices. There’s only so far a company blogger can go with being open about his employer. The observing public wants all the inside dirt they can get, the blogger may want to [...]
NY Politicians Argue Over Google Earth
New York politicians appear to be at odds over just how dangerous Google Earth might be; Assemblyman Mike Gianaris is asking Google to blur out sensitive images, while Mayor Michael Bloomberg feels such efforts may not be the best use of time. For those keeping track, Gianaris and Bloomberg are generally viewed as a Democrat [...]
Will Users Kongregate At The YouTube For Games?
It’s spelled as if it comes straight from the Kaiser, or the Kremlin, and red like the Cold War (which Putin, apparently, is looking to put back in the cooler), and maybe, since it’s somewhat communal, this online sharing thing, it’s appropriate – Kongregate is being touted as "the YouTube for games." If that sounds [...]
Will Google Cash Detective Ruin the Industry?
I’m really enjoying all of the excitement and congratulations over this great new technology. Many people can already see the future of affiliate marketing. I hope you enjoyed the two videos that are available so far for viewing in the member’s panel. http://www.articlesnatch.com/googlecash.htm When I sent these videos demonstrating all of the software’s functionality to [...]
All Bets Are Off – Yahoo Gets Into Online Poker
Online poker has (deservedly or not) gotten a bad reputation, and it’s actually illegal in the U.S. It came as a bit of a surprise, then, when Yahoo launched a new site called Yahoo Poker. The site’s not for kiddies, and it’s not a joke; players will use real money. Euros and British pounds are [...]
Cingular and Verizon Are Full of It
You would think that questions about linking to a website, or more specifically, what you’re allowed to say when linking, would have been put to rest. But that’s not true for Cingular or for Verizon Wireless, who think they have a right to control your hyperlink anchor text and where you link on their public [...]
AdWords Introduces Preferred Cost Bidding
AdWords introduced a new bidding option called "preferred cost bidding," an alternative to setting a maximum cost-per-click (CPC). In essence, for the advertiser with less time and/or fewer resources, the option puts AdWords management on Google’s shoulders. Marketing Pilgrim’s Andy Beal compares it to a mutual fund model, and Efficient Frontier’s latest "marketplace" approach. The [...]
O’Reilly Turns Criticism Into Civil Discourse
After the uproar caused by his proposed code of conduct for bloggers, Tim O’Reilly could have let the subject drop into the deep waters of blogospheric controversy, only to be remembered as a cautionary tale, a footnote to the history of the Web. He didn’t slip quietly away, however, and instead addressed his critics head-on, [...]
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